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Anthropology on Blair Mountain
by Brandon Nida I find it somewhat difficult to think and write about central Appalachia without falling into the use of essentialisms and stereotypes. Even though I am from West Virginia it is hard to...
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Paige West on coffee, commodities, and community engagement
ENGAGEMENT editor Rebecca Garvoille recently caught up with Paige West, the Tow Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, to discuss her new book, From Modern...
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The Lores of Local Food: Different Ways of Being Local and Eating Locally
by Dvera I. Saxton Throughout the course of my research, I’ve seen how there is no one way to eat locally or to farm sustainably. These concepts and practices are quite fluid and change based on...
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Microelectronic Disaster and the “Smarter Planet” Paradox
by Peter C. Little Less than 300 miles northwest of New York City, in the Empire State’s Southern Tier region, is the small community of Endicott. Nestled along the Susquehanna River, it is known as...
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Sustainability and Food Production in the Hoosier Heartland: Learning through...
By Cailín E. Murray with contributions from her students Whitney Lingle and Britny Burton Once a booming agricultural and factory town, Muncie, Indiana, is today a post-industrial rustbelt city...
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Settler Colonial Nature in the Everglades
By Jessica R. Cattelino Americans live in a settler colonial society, and this shapes how we understand and engage nature. In the vast expanse of slow-flowing water and drained agricultural lands known...
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Genese Marie Sodikoff on forest conservation, Malagasy worker-peasants and...
ENGAGEMENT editor Rebecca Garvoille recently caught up with Genese Marie Sodikoff, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss her new book, Forest and Labor in Madagascar:...
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Gathering Divergent Forest Honeys: Collections and Commodity Flows in the...
By Sarah Webb When I began researching honey collecting in the Philippines, I never anticipated that making visual collections of objects and images associated with marketing honey was going to become...
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